Latest forecast has New Orleans in Katrina's cross-hairs

steve2470

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:07 AM
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Latest forecast has New Orleans in Katrina's cross-hairs

Edited on Sat Aug-27-05 12:10 AM by steve2470

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/weather/

Friday, August 26, 2005

Blanco declares state of emergency as Katrina shifts west

The latest forecast track for Hurricane Katrina - issued at 10 p.m. CDT - has the strengthening storm crossing lower Plaquemines, then north on a line across the New Orleans metro area.

The storm is now a Category 2, with sustained winds of 105 mph and higher gusts. It is expected to strengthen to Category 3 by Saturday, and some major models have it strengthening to a Category 4, or even Category 5 by landfall Monday evening.

Earlier Friday, Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency as an adjusted major shift west in the projected track of Hurricane Katrina threatened Southeastern Louisiana.

Katrina, the 11th named storm of a busy season, was upgraded to Category 2 as it moved deeper into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday afternoon, after crossing Florida yesterday. Homes were flooded, fallen trees blocked roads and utility crews scrambled to restore power to more than 1 million homes and businesses Friday as South Floridians coped with Hurricane Katrina's messy aftermath.

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BayouBengal07

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:08 AM
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1. Yeah

Edited on Sat Aug-27-05 12:10 AM by BayouBengal07

I just called my parents in New Orleans; they haven't left yet but who knows by tomorrow. I'm up at LSU, so maybe I'll get some school off :)

It's always fun to get some attention from all those Yankees who get snow days off!

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yankeeinlouisiana

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:14 AM
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3. I'll take a snow day over

a hurricane any day.

;-)

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Blue_Roses

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:29 AM
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4. what's so scarey about this is New Orleans is alreay below

Edited on Sat Aug-27-05 12:55 AM by Blue_Roses

sea level. Flooding would be major. This "little" storm did a lot of damage in south Florida and it will gain speed coming in now since it has been over the warm, WARM waters of the gulf. I don't want to see New Orleans get this, nor any other coastal state for that matter, but New Orleans would flood bad.

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fishnfla

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:12 AM
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2. Unfortunatly, everybody knows the drill

load up, gas up, get up and go.....

Man of man, this could be hard times for the big easy

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Bluebear

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Sat Aug-27-05 12:51 AM
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5. kick

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steve2470

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Sat Aug-27-05 01:42 AM
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6. altruistic kick nt

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